[Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging Octave 2.9.3

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-Sep-2005, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

| * John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu> [2005-09-28 14:17]:
| 
| > OK.  There is one problem.  Cholmod from ufsparse requires METIS,
| > which is distributed under terms that are not compatible with the GPL,
| > so we won't be able to use it unless the license changes.  David
| > Bateman has asked the author about licensing, but I don't know the
| > outcome.
| 
| Well, if the author does not change the license, either we don't use
| METIS or Octave will have be excluded from Debian

Maybe my message wasn't clear.  We can't use that part of ufsparse with
Octave, whether in Debian or not.  I think the worst case is that we
have to avoid the part of ufsparse that requires metis.

jwe